Show LONDON TAKES KINDLY TO THE GAME many clubs recently formed and promoters are busy among football players to adopt the game london over here they are trying to make baseball popular the move ment Is being pushed by two english men who hae been to america sev eral times an have seen the game played their names are cook and they are very enthuse aftic and it looks as it their method cf procedure to make the game lar is bound to meet with success the persons who tried to introduce the game before abw ays b i juht pro fess ional players over front america this was a mistake as the pro were too fast and played too intricate a game for the conservative english men who could not follow its details the present scheme however is tar diffrient and is already taking a good bold on the english fancy an association has been organized under the name of the british base ball association this has a member ship of ten clubs and it is calculated that this will get the englishmen in te rested in playing the game them selves besides there are many americans here who would be only too eager to get in a game of baseball and these men are all available for the english clubs with the assist ance of a few american players the will probably feel more con aident the first big game was played re bently at plumstead the match was between je oxford rhodes scholars and a team representing london needless to say the oxford boys won rather easily all having played the game before and besides that they were players of no mean ability W J kelly an american played at shortstop for the london nine and surprised his teammates by his abgill ty he was all over the infield and sometimes ran tar into the outfield to get a fly something unusual to the Britis hers mr kelly is manager ot james E sullivan s london office the english were not at all slow they got onto slide kelly slide without any diffly alty one time atte reaching first kelly stole bases eliding into every one to the accod panl ment of the slogan by bis team mates there were abo A 1 people pres ent and nearly all seemed to enjoy the game they liked the coaching done by one of the yanks but the thought he did not do enough of it all sorts of remarks were passes about the game well I 1 d rathe see golf said one yes beastly dull agreed his neighbor 0 that fellow funny sliding that way on the but there were plenty that praised it and a tev cranks are soon forgotten each of the spectators was handed a pamphlet entitled baseball Is brief explaining the more intricate features the score card published for this game was the first baseball score card ever gotten up in england and it certainly created surprise among the english an effort is being made to get the football men to take up baseball former game is played in the winter here and the promoters of baseball figure that it they can get the foot ball players to take up the diamond game in the summer that that would make it a success the people are relied upon to go to watch their f bonte football favorites play any game and once they see baseball and get to know it they cannot fall to see its merits |